Emanuela Dalmasso and Francesco Cavatorta

Emanuela Dalmasso is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Turin, Italy. Her PhD focuses on civil society activism in Morocco and, in particular, on women's rights groups and how they interact with the Moroccan regime. She has previously published on the topic in the Journal of Modern African Studies and Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. She is currently working on the internal dynamics of the February 20 Movement.

Francesco Cavatorta is Francesco Cavatorta is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, Ireland. His research focuses on processes of political change in the Arab world and on the role of Islamist parties and movements. He has published his work in a number of journals including Democratization, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Modern African Studies, Government and Opposition, Mediterranean Politics and Journal of North African Studies. He is also the author of four books, including Civil Society and Democratisation in the Arab World: the Dynamics of Activism, co-authored with Vincent Durac and  published by Routledge in 2010. Click here to visit his website.